Author: doodledweller
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Machine Learning for Creative Writing
I think that most of us like certainty. We prefer to know what we will do today, tomorrow, and the days after. We like novelty too, but only when we are mentally prepared for it, which is a form of certainty in itself. Uncertainty begets anxiety, a state of mind so disdained that it is…
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On Writing
I started writing while traveling. It was useful to thwart boredom during times without much to distract my eyes or my ears, and there were a lot of those times. Then it was an effective way to tie down my thoughts, capturing what I saw and felt at the moment. For an introvert, writing is…
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When Life Gives You Lemons
When live gives you lemons, make lemonade;better yet, make marmalade. A common analogy is to make the best of a situation, but I’d rather interpret it as to look for the sweet and fabulous outcomes of all things. Because if you were going to be a fruit, to be a lemon is among the best…
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Sweet Potatoes
The sweet potato is not a pantry staple like the potato, yet not sufficiently exotic to catch the culinary trendy train like kale or quinoa. Baked into a sweet casserole during the holidays, snubbed by the pumpkin pie like a wallflower, it fills the void in between brown sugar studded ham and stuffed turkey, gravy…
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New Year’s Resolution
Before I get around to proclaiming my new year’s resolution, I should tell you about my favorite corner of earth. I find myself returning to this part of the world time and time again. The first country I visited was Costa Rica, then Argentina and a short stint in Chile; after that, Brazil, and the…
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Journey through Siberia
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”-Anthony Bourdain…
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Finding Beauty
In the year 1490, Leonardo da Vinci sketched the Vitruvian Man, his idea of a perfect human form. Being a man of math and science, it inscribed the ideal proportions of the body within a circle and a square, an analogy for the workings of the universe; and of course being a man, it was…
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Using Open-Source Data To Explore Tyler State Park
My first grasp of the internet was all about free music, a user-sharing service called Napster, and a media player called Winamp. That was then; the internet now feels like a vast blackhole of information, promising to create chaos as well as the opportunity to tackle the greatest challenges of our time, like climate change,…
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To Make a Garden
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or…
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Holiday Baking Expedition: A Modified Panettone
Panettone is an Italian sweet bread eaten during the Christmas holiday. A search for a traditional panettone recipe will prescribe that it is made with a sourdough starter, 3 different refreshes before reaching the final dough mix, taking around 3 days to finish. A search for the perfect picture panettone will show a dome shaped…
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